Disclaimer: I do not own these characters. They are owned by NBC and Ken Corday. I have no money, I just graduated from grad school...so go ahead an sue me for my student loans if you'd like.

Family Feud

By Joise

AN: This story is very AU. There is a feud between the Brady's and the Lockhart's that have been going on for many years. It's similar to the DiMera/Brady feud. I named Mimi's grandfather Brian, just using Patrick's middle name I got from Beth's site from the family tree. Also, Zach is alive in this story

Background Information

The feud between the Lockhart's and the Brady's has been around for so many years that the youngest generation didn't even know why the hatred was still there, but it was. Bo, Roman, Hope and the rest of the Brady's still remember the torment Brian Lockhart caused in their lives. They only had one mission in mind: Take down the Lockhart Dynasty once and for all. David wasn't there to know how the feud started, he just knew he had to finish his father's work and that was to destroy Shawn Brady Sr.'s family. And he was going to do that. The hatred and the feud did not end with this generation of Brady's and Lockhart's, they all to remember the unspeakable acts of one Brian Lockhart, Mimi's grandfather. But what about the next generation? Will the hatred finally end with Patrick and Mimi Lockhart, Shawn and Zach Brady? Or will the hatred claim this generation and seep into the next? Will the hatred ever run dry?

Or will true love truly conqueror all as Alice Horton once claimed it did. Will the forbidden love between and Lockhart and a Brady finally end the feud that continued for 60 plus years? Or will it just ignite a new fire of hatred to burn on for many years to come? Will true love conqueror hate? Or destroy the young lovers?

Prologue

The Salem Spectator has been sold out within the first twenty minutes the paper hit the stand. How could it not with the headline like this: "From Family Feud Comes Love!" The subtitle read: "Shawn Douglas Brady and Mimi Lockhart Caught in Forbidden Love Affair." A nice 5 x 7 photo color photo of the young lovers kissing on the park benching kissing passionately catches the attention of the buyer. How could a person walking by not see the sparks from that kiss that could easily set that paper on fire?

David and Patrick Lockhart are sitting at the breakfast table with paper in hand, fuming over the headline and the betrayal of Mimi Lockhart, his daughter, his sister falling in love with the enemy.

David slammed his paper on the table, "Shawn Douglas Brady will pay for this with his life!" he yelled, his voice echoing throughout the room, "And Miriam," he voice growled as he pushed his chair away from the table and stormed out of the room, "when I get my hands on that girl, they will be hell to pay. Daughter or not, this will not go unpunished!"

Patrick was taken back a bit; he had seen his father angry before, but never like this. He had not clue what his father would do to his sister and that thought scared him. As much as he loved his sister and wanted to protect, he couldn't save her from their father's wrath. And Shawn, he really didn't care what happened to Shawn-Douglas Brady.

Bo, Roman, Hope and Zach Brady were lost over this story. The story that told about their son/brother's love for the enemy, Bo and Hope felt so betrayed and knew that Mimi need to be eliminated for Shawn's life.

"I'll call Victor," Bo said, "I'm sure he can help us keep those two apart."

"And keep Shawn alive," Zach whispered. He knew this was going to happen, that his brother's love for her and hers for him would someday destroy them all. Someday was now, and the knowledge of their affair was no longer a secret. He just hoped that Shawn didn't blame him for this leak. Zach had been a faithful brother and friend, keeping their secret for them.

"David Lockhart will not kill my son!" Bo said in anger, "I will not allow it!"

"How could Shawn be so stupid!" Roman said, "He was just suppose to get information on Lockhart…not….not! God I can't even say it!"

"Mimi Lockhart is nothing but an eye sore," Hope said dismissively, "I will not allow her to poison my son! She will not be the reason he dies!"

Zach leaned back and sighed, Shawn and Mimi weren't even in town to know that the bomb just exploded. He had to find them, to warn them. "I'm going to see if I can track down Shawn," Zach said, "I'll find him before Lockhart can."

"You're a good boy," Bo said as he watched his son leave the house. He was unaware of Zach's role in this forbidden affair and Zach was terrified of his reaction when he did find out.

"I hope you're at your safe haven Shawn," Zach said, "because otherwise you're a dead man."

Shawn was waiting for her to arrive at their secret place, the Horton cabin or their safe haven as they like to refer to it as. It was their safe haven from the world, from the hatred that consumed their families. They never excepted to fall in love, but they did. And now these walls and Zach were the only ones that knew of their love. These walls knew the intimate and passionate love that belonged to Shawn and Mimi. A love that defied their parents, the feud, and a century of hatred. A strong longing that they couldn't deny anymore, a hunger for the other one that was too much to bear. They needed to be with each other, the ached to be with the other one.

Shawn hated the word good-bye, because saying good-bye to her was getting to harder and harder to say to her, his love. He loved her more than his own life and she knew it. She loved him the same way, they defeated all odds. They fell in love and he would never let that feeling go, he would never let her go.

Mimi finally made it to the cabin, their safe haven. She was trembling from the news; somehow, someone found out about their love and sold it to the papers. It would be only a matter of time before their families found out and tried to tear them apart. Their lives where in danger, she had no doubt in her mind her family was looking for Shawn's blood and his for hers. She knew by tomorrow the rest of their secrets would be revealed as well; the truth will destroy them all. She's no longer Miriam Lockhart daughter of David and Bonnie Lockhart and third generation of this hatred, this feud. No, she wasn't that anymore, she was Miriam Brady, wife of her one true love Shawn Brady, whom he affectedly called Meems or baby and mother of the child she just discovered she was carrying.

Shawn looked up and saw his wife standing there. "Wife," he thought to himself, he still couldn't get over the fact that his gorgeous and caring woman was his wife. That thought still brought a smile to his face, but it quickly faded away when he saw the trembling form that was his beloved. "Baby what's wrong?" he asked getting off of the couch and running to her side.

She didn't understand why he could be so happy in a time like this? A time when their world started to crumble and so much more. "They know," she whispered as the newspapers fell from her shaking hands. She watched him read the headlines, she witnessed his facial changes. He didn't know.

Saying that he was stunned or shocked would be the understatement of the century as he read the headline to the Salem Spectator. He bent down and pushed aside that paper to look at the other papers she had brought. They had made the front page in every one.

"Love does conquer all: Shawn Douglas Brady and Mimi Lockhart in Love."

"Hate thy Enemy? Daughter of David Lockhart caught loving son of Bo Brady."

"Real or Hoax? Is this really young love?"

"Modern day Romeo and Juliet. Shawn Douglas Brady and Miriam Lockhart in Love!"

Each headline had its own picture of Shawn and Mimi together. Someone invaded their intimate moments with a camera and sold it to the highest bidder. He looked up at his wife; she was still shaking from the news as the tears rolled down her cheeks. He wiped away her tears, "They can't break us up," he said taking her into his arms, "You're my wife, I'm you're husband. They can just all go to hell."

"My father will kill you," she said in tears, "our baby will never know its father." She couldn't hold in her heart break anymore and cried in his arms.

"I'm not going to…." it took a moment for her sentence to fully register, "Baby? Did you just say baby?" He broke from their embrace to look her in the eyes.

"I'm pregnant," she whispered as she let the four positive pregnancy tests drop to the floor. One read pregnant, another had a plus sign, the other two showed two lines.

"We're having a baby!" he said excitingly, "We're having a baby!" He picked her up and spun her around. He kissed her passionately, then bent down to kiss her stomach where their baby was growing. He looked into her loving eyes as he stood up again. He couldn't help but notice the terror in her eyes; he didn't understand why she wasn't happy, "What's wrong? You're happy about the baby right?"

"Yes," she said, "and no."

He looked into her eyes and understood, it was about her father. David Lockhart would never allow their baby to live. He would never allow a Brady to father his grandchildren. He would soon kill him, the baby, and possibility Mimi to keep this baby from living. He took his trembling wife back into his arms, "David can't hurt us," he said wanting to believe it. But he knew that David was probably already planning his death.

"No it's not Shawn!" she said, "My father is going to kill you and our baby! He hates the Brady's! He doesn't want our baby to live! He doesn't want Brady and Lockhart blood mixing like this!"

"Shish," Shawn said, "we'll figure something out."

"Don't you dare talking to me like I'm a child!" Mimi said, "Our lives are at risk! We should have ranaway when the had the chance!"

"Listen to me!" Shawn said raising his voice, "I will not allow that man to lay one finger on my family. I would die before I let that happen!"

"He will," she said, "he's out there now looking for me, for you."

"Baby…" But he was cut off by the radio.

"Breaking news! Families in up roar. Shawn Brady and Mimi Lockhart's affair out in the open. But what all of Salem is wondering, how did these two go from hatred to love…"

Shawn sighed as he turned it off, wishing he could have gotten to it sooner. But who knew that Salem would be so boring tonight that their love would make breaking news. He looked at her and excepted tears but he found laughter, "What's so funny?"

"All of Salem wants to know how we fell in love Shawn," Mimi said, "don't you feel special?"

"I already am special because I have you," Shawn said giving her a kiss, "I don't care about the outside world right now. All I care about is you and this wonderful news that we're going to have a baby."

"Yeah," she said with a huge grin on her face, "to hell with the rest of the world!"

"That's the girl I fell in love with," he said smiling as he kissed her again. They kisses got more passionate by the second as he scoped her up in his arms and carried her to the bed.

AN: Please review and let me know what you think.